Chapter 20: Do You Want to Leave Easily?

“Ten million years!”
As soon as these words were spoken, Zong Jing exclaimed in surprise, somewhat stunned—unexpecting that the Divine Kings’ Reincarnation Battle would start earlier than planned.
However, whether it was 100 million years or 10 million years, it didn’t matter. At least the Divine Kings on the side of the Ascended Ones were already prepared. Moreover, with only 10 million years left, it was even better news for Zong Jing, Wu Yuan, Qing Wu Gui, and the others—Qiu Yi could emerge from the sealed space ahead of time, allowing them to reunite.
Qing Wu Gui, Xu Miao, Qian Mao, Qi Shen, Wu Yuan, along with the ten chiefs of Tianfeng Fort and several Divine Kings from Tianfeng Fort such as Xiao Feng, all showed excited expressions upon hearing these words.
“Qiu Yi is about to come out!” Everyone was overjoyed.
Inside a palace on the Three Divine Peaks, Bai Man had been in seclusion all these years. In truth, she had been here with Qiu Yi, wishing to watch him quietly alone. Over the years, Bai Man had refined four Soul Beads and now fully understood the Five Elements laws.
Yet, she still hadn’t formed her own Divine King will and had not yet reached the rank of Divine King.
Hearing the sudden voice in the air, Bai Man opened her eyes, flew into the air, and arrived beside the sealed space.
“Qiu Yi, you’re about to come out. I must also reach the rank of Divine King. By then, I will be by your side, fighting together to kill all the Divine Kings of the Eight Realms,” Bai Man said calmly, but the murderous intent in her tone was terrifying.
These 400 million years were originally meant to be spent with Qiu Yi, but their separation was caused by the interference of the Divine Kings of the Eight Realms. The anger accumulated in Bai Man’s heart gradually turned into a desire to kill one of those Divine Kings to calm her emotions.
The various Divine Kings in the stone pavilions watched Bai Man’s actions silently, their own murderous intent surging—wishing the Reincarnation Battle would start right away so they could exterminate the Divine Kings of the Eight Realms together.
The situation on Nan Yin Island was like this, and in the eight divine realms, the cultivators naturally heard the voice in the air and realized that the Reincarnation Battle was approaching. It would be a battle that would reshuffle the ranks of the Divine Kings—some would rise to power, while others would be sent back into reincarnation.
And since the cultivators in these eight divine realms were all Ascended Ones, public opinion naturally leaned heavily in one direction.
“The Reincarnation Battle is about to begin. This time, the native Divine Kings of the Divine Realm will surely be purged.”

“Of course. There’s Qu Yi, the three Divine Kings of Nan Yin Island, and the various Divine Kings of Tian Feng Zhai. The number of Divine Kings on our side of those who have ascended far exceeds that of the native Divine Kings.”
“I believe that once the Reincarnation War ends, all the remaining Divine Kings will surely be from our side of those who have ascended.”
“As long as the native Divine Kings are all dead, the Divine Realm will belong to us ascended cultivators from then on. Only then will our cultivation truly get on the right track. Fighting over resources, battling together, using every means to improve our strength—this is the proper way for us cultivators to practice. In the past, the resources in the Divine Realm were almost all taken by the native cultivators, leaving little for us ascended cultivators. Now, it’s the real beginning of our cultivation.”
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Cultivators from the eight divine realms each shared their insights, and a wave of enthusiasm for cultivation arose.
In some place within the spatial turbulence, the eight Divine Kings of the realms continued to cultivate peacefully.
The moment Reincarnation Mountain appeared, these twenty-three Divine Kings immediately sensed it, opening their eyes with puzzled expressions, unsure why Reincarnation Mountain had appeared so early.
Naturally, upon hearing the announcement that the Reincarnation War was about to begin, these twenty-three Divine Kings were even more astonished. The Reincarnation War only takes place once in trillions of years, yet it was happening a hundred million years earlier—this was truly puzzling.
Could the Reincarnation War break the rules of time?
The twenty-three Divine Kings calmed down after a while, quickly putting aside their chaotic thoughts. Since the Reincarnation War was starting earlier, it was actually a good thing—at least the Divine Emperor could act sooner to kill Qu Yi.
“Everyone, there’s only ten million years left now. Let’s continue meditating for a while. Time will pass quickly, and then we’ll directly enter Reincarnation Mountain from the spatial turbulence,” Qiu Yan said calmly, ready to continue cultivating.
At that moment, Gong Ye Zhong and Gong Ye Yu, the two Divine Kings of Ze Dui Divine Realm, became displeased. They exchanged glances and immediately spoke up.
“No, before we enter Reincarnation Mountain, we must first go to Nan Yin Island. We want to enter Reincarnation Mountain together with our elder brother Gong Ye Ming.”
“Our elder brother is trapped in space with Qu Yi. I’m afraid Qu Yi and our elder brother might end up in the same area of Reincarnation Mountain, which would put our elder brother in great danger. We must enter Reincarnation Mountain together with him.”
Gong Ye Zhong and Gong Ye Yu looked slightly angry, dissatisfied with the other seven realms’ Divine Kings.

The Divine Kings’ Reincarnation Battle, like the battles against cultivators at the Divine Weapon, Divine General, and Divine Marshal stages, also involves ascending from the Divine Realm to the battlefield. Thus, Gongye Zhong and Gongye Yu were both very worried that Gongye Ming might ascend to Reincarnation Mountain together with Qu Yi. By then, due to the four hundred million years of isolation, Qu Yi would vent all his anger on Gongye Ming, leaving him either dead or severely injured—a fatal blow to the Gongye family.

The Divine Kings of the other seven realms certainly understood why these two were worried, but they pretended not to know, acting as if they were unaware of the reason.

“Gongye Zhong, Gongye Yu, you yourselves know that all the Divine Kings from the Ascendants have gathered on Nan Yin Island. If we go out now, we’ll surely face their fierce attacks. Not only will we fail to save Gongye Ming, but we might also be injured. What should we do?” Wu Lian from the Water Dam Divine Realm replied directly.

“That’s right. Does Gongye Ming necessarily have to ascend to the same area as Qu Yi when the Reincarnation Battle starts?” Yan Yi from the Fire Departure Divine Realm said with a smile.

Anyway, since the Reincarnation Battle hasn’t begun yet, these Divine Kings won’t appear, and no one can withstand the attacks of those twenty-six Ascendant Divine Kings. Moreover, based on their past experience, when ascending to Reincarnation Mountain, the Divine Kings would land in different locations around the foot of the mountain before fighting their way up together. Therefore, these eight realms’ Divine Kings didn’t want to engage in a fierce battle with the Ascendant Divine Kings before the battle even started.

Seeing that these Divine Kings were all indifferent, Gongye Zhong understood their plans and his expression turned cold.

“Gentlemen, you must also understand that our eldest brother also possesses an Origin Pearl. If he falls into danger, even if the seven Origin Pearls from your seven realms are combined, they will have significant flaws. It will be very difficult for you to deal with Qu Yi then,” Gongye Zhong said coldly.

This statement indeed caused concern among the Divine Kings, who all changed expressions slightly.

When all eight Origin Pearls are used together, in addition to sealing space, they can also draw out all the origin energy of the entire Divine Realm, annihilating the space entirely and creating an eternal spatial black hole. However, the consequence of doing this is that the owners of the eight Origin Pearls will suffer backlash and would need at least trillions of years to recover their strength.

That’s why, although the eight Divine Kings once used their Origin Pearls together, they didn’t dare to combine their power to destroy a space, fearing that if they failed to kill Qu Yi, their own strength would be greatly reduced, putting their lives at real risk.

However, the Reincarnation War was approaching soon, and none of the Divine Kings dared believe that the Divine Emperor could surely kill Qu Yi with just one strike. Thus, they hoped to use the eight Origin Beads to deliver the final blow.
“Gongye Zhong, then what do you suggest?” Qiu Yan could no longer pretend to be ignorant and asked immediately.
All the Divine Kings turned to Gongye Zhong, waiting for an answer.
Gongye Zhong curled his lips. He despised these Divine Kings’ fickleness greatly, but there was nothing he could do. Currently, only two Divine Kings were in the Zedui Divine Realm, so he couldn’t afford to alienate them too much and had to pretend to cooperate.
“I understand everyone is worried about fighting to the death against Zong Jing and the others, but we must save my elder brother. I have a proposal: Nine million years from now, one million years before the Reincarnation War begins, we’ll go to Nan Yin Island, dismantle the Spatial-Time Transformation Array, and rescue my elder brother. Then we’ll return here to wait for the start of the Reincarnation War. I think that in just one million years, Qu Yi won’t be able to improve his strength any further, and he still won’t be able to avoid the Divine Emperor’s fatal strike at the Reincarnation Mountain,” Gongye Zhong said calmly.
There were only ten million years left until the Reincarnation War, so it would be ideal to rescue Gongye Ming in advance. Moreover, given the cultivation speed of the cultivators in the Divine Realm, with only one million years left for Qu Yi to reach the level of a Divine King, it was unlikely he could make any breakthroughs. Gongye Zhong had clearly thought this through before making his suggestion.
After hearing Gongye Zhong’s words, the Divine Kings fell silent and pondered for a long time.
“Gongye Zhong, how about we dismantle the array ten thousand years earlier?” Qiu Yan thought for a moment before responding.
It was mainly Qu Yi’s cultivation potential that had already scared the Divine Kings. They were worried that he might make new breakthroughs in those one million years. So, to be safe, Qiu Yan decided to leave as little time as possible for Qu Yi.
The Divine Kings nodded in agreement.
Seeing this, Gongye Zhong could only compromise. As long as Gongye Ming and Qu Yi didn’t ascend together, it would be fine.
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Qu Yi had been trapped in that sealed space for over four hundred million years.
Now, there were only ten million years left until the Divine Kings’ Reincarnation War.
Divine Kings like Wuyuan, Qing Wu Gui, Zong Jing, and Qi Shen had been stationed on Nan Yin Island, watching Qu Yi, waiting for the Reincarnation War to begin so they could all ascend to the Reincarnation Mountain together.
Suddenly, a massive wave of energy fluctuation appeared, causing ripples to spread through space, and then a group of people appeared above Nan Yin Island.
The Eight Domain Divine Kings had arrived.

“You’re finally out!” Zong Jing saw them at once and shouted immediately.
But the Eight Realms Divine Kings paid no attention to Zong Jing and the others. At this moment, Qiu Qi, Tian Jian, Bai Lan, Sang Rui, Gongye Zhong, Jin Chengrui, Yu Enheng, and Yan Que—the eight Divine Kings—acted together and seized their top-grade innate spiritual treasures.
Naturally, the Spatial-Time Great Transformation Formation also disappeared at that moment.
“Gongye Ming, come here quickly!”
“Elder brother, hurry over!”
As they dismantled the formation, the Eight Realms Divine Kings shouted loudly, looking quite anxious.
Qu Yi suddenly appeared beside Gongye Ming, but his eyes were fixed on the Eight Realms Divine Kings as he laughed loudly, “Do you think you can leave so easily?”